Public Health: Health Disparities

Powerful new tool, developed by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California, to assist you in exploring local factors that predict life expectancy and comparing community conditions across the state. The HPI provides overall scores and more detailed data on specific policy action areas that shape health, like housing, transportation, education and more. This website offers other resources everyone will find useful, including an interactive map, graphs, data tables, and policy guide with practical solutions for improving community conditions and health.

The health disparity between South Los Angeles (SPA6) and neighboring West Los Angeles provides a snapshot of how the inability of South Los Angeles residents to afford adequate housing, healthy foods, jobs and health insurance has led to an immeasurable degree of health and financial problems. UMMA has become a safe haven for those who need it most, many of whom would have no place else to go for health care.

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.

Focuses on the health states of individuals or populations of individuals. This multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation studies how health systems, health practices, health interventions, health policies, and health factors impact health outcomes for patients of all demographic backgrounds. Health services scientists conduct research to identify and implement the most effective mechanisms to organize, finance, and deliver high-quality care.